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Northern Republican, and a supporter of the anti-slavery cause. Stephen Douglas was also a candidate from Illinois, a Northern Democrat, and a supporter of popular sovereignty being the decider of slavery in states. John Bell was a candidate from Tennessee, a Constitutional Unionist, and a defender of slavery, and lastly, John Breckinridge was a candidate from Kentucky, a Southern Democrat, and a protector of slavery. Lincoln ended up winning with the most electoral votes but not the most…

I have chosen Thomas Nast’s March 16, 1867 cartoon picture, “The Georgetown Election—The Negro at the Ballot Box,” as my primary source. The cartoon’s setting is Georgetown and people are in line to vote for Andrew Jackson as a president. And it features an African-American man standing in line to vote and two white men glaring at them. The African-American man is dressed up in low class clothes. He took off his hat when he puts his vote in the glass ballot box. A white man lined up behind the…

Andrea Barrios Hist 1301.1m1 5/31/2016 Sam Houston and the American Southwest In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, written by Randolph B. Campbell and edited by Mark C. Canes, the main focus is on Sam Houston’s many accomplishments and failures. The purpose Randolph Campbell has is to inform general and scholarly readers on who Sam Houston was as a warrior, politician, and leader. Sam Houston was a governor of two states, President of the Republic of Texas, and for thirteen years a…

the Trail of Tears, your parents dying, deadly diseases, starving in the winter, dying of hyperthermia in the winter. How would you survive? The Trail of Tears leads through the present day states of, Alabama Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina. Trail Of Tears- An event in history which happened in…

The Cherokee Indians Forced Removal: Concentration Camps and Conditions Danielle Warren HIST3000: The Professional Historian: Historical Study and Writing Professor Martin Dotterweich October 26, 2014 The early 1800s were devastating times for the American Indians. They were forcibly removed from their lands and sent across the country on a journey that became known as The Trail of Tears. Schools across America study this journey in history classes. This exodus to the lands west of…

He states, “By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid” (Jackson, 2). Jackson demonstrates…

I don’t know how the wonderful music history of Memphis pass me by but somehow It did! I have always heard that Memphis is known for its music history, especially the blues, but I never investigated the theory for myself. The instructor at the college challenged me to write a paper about the history of the Stax Museum in a reflection paper and I am really glad she did. It influenced me to finally take the time to view the history of Memphis firsthand starting with the Stax Museum. The research,…

opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you” (I’ve Been to the Mountaintop). Many are not familiar with this speech. It was given April 3rd, 1968 in the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. Being his last vocalization, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech to a large audience for the cause of racial equality. “Rev. King also spoke for the city’s sanitation workers who were on strike at the time protesting poor…

There was one special day in the year of 1833 that absolutely changed America due to Andrew Jackson. He destroyed The National Bank of America due to his belief of the amount of power it was given without liability and it was unconstitutional. The Second Bank of the United States was sanctioned in 1816 for a 20 year term. The time held worried many people in Congress about money related to private companies. Bank supporters needed solid cash and focal control of the economy. In 1828, Jackson was…

The Cherokee were one of the many tribes that assimilated into the white culture. Although they did exactly what they were expected to do, Andrew Jackson and a few states had trouble grasping onto their assimilation. Jackson went through with a historical event that to this day in American History is known as the Trail of Tears, due to the substantial amounts of deaths that were sprung from it. Jackson had no thought of whether he was doing the right or wrong thing, because to him it was all…